Quotes About Expectation

because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

I regret how much I believed in the future.

The moment before he started was my favorite moment.

I opened the coffin. I was surprised again, although again I shouldn't have been. I was surprised that Dad wasn't there. In my brain I knew he wouldn't be, obviously, but I guess my heart believed something else. Or maybe I was surprised by incredibly empty it was. I felt like I was looking into the dictionary definition of emptiness.

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

She asked: "What can you promise?" He promised: "Things are about to be different.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?

But even if the average life expectancy continued to increase by one year with each passing year, it would take forever for people to live forever, so probably no one would ever see it.

Ci promise che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Anche se ero una bambina sapevo che non sarebbe andato così. Ma questo non faceva di mio padre un bugiardo. Faceva di lui mio padre.

Wat is er mis met dat verlangen en dat nodig hebben? Niets. En de gapende afstand tussen de plek waar je bent en je oorspronkelijke voorstelling hoeft niet per definitie mislukking in te houden. Teleurstelling hoeft niet teleurstellend te zijn. Het verlangen, het nodig hebben, de afstand, de teleurstelling: groeien, weten, toewijden, naast elkaar oud worden. Je kunt heel goed alleen leven, maar niet een leven lang.

My dad once told me that before I was born, when the only proof of my life was sonograms, he had to believe in me. In other words, being born allows your parents to stop believing in you.

Night after night, I looked up at those stars with a growing certainty that my role in this vast, magical universe was simply to be, and nothing about my being was predetermined or burdened with expectation unless I allowed others to make it that.

Gerçek benim düÅŸündüÄŸüm gibi deÄŸil. Olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi deÄŸil. Bana olaca??n? söyledikleri gibi deÄŸil. Yar?n olaca?? gibi deÄŸil. Benim d???mdaki gerçek neyse odur.

Deseos, apego, anhelos y expectativas; he aquí las raíces de nuestro sufrimiento.

A Osvaldo le pasó lo que a todos, que nos creemos el cuento de que nos va a ir bien en la vida.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

A miracle has the right to impose conditions.

La realidad no suele coincidir con las previsiones; con lógica perversa, prever un detalle circunstancial es impedir que este suceda

Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do.

My name is someone & anyone. I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

I had no wish to take any determined route on that stroll; I attempted, rather, a maximum latitude of probabilities in order not to wear out expectation with an obligatory anticipation of a single one of them. I was able, within the imperfect limits of possibility, to walk, as they say, at random. I accepted, without any conscious prejudice but that of avoiding the wider avenues and streets, the most obscure invitations of chance.